Climate and Jobs – CCNB

Federal Budget 2024: Generational fairness means protecting the environment

Corey Robichaud — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:02:00 +0000

Traditional territory of the Wabanaki Peoples/Fredericton — Beverly (Bev) Gingras, Executive Director of the Conservation Council, today issued the following statement:“True fairness for every generation means we need a healthy environment.The Conservation Council of New Brunswick is pleased to see the federal government taking measures to address the affordability crisis in the 2024 budget but is…

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Atlantic Citizens’ Assembly on Electricity Affordability and Energy Poverty

Corey Robichaud — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 16:50:53 +0000

Energy poverty is a term used to describe households that spend six percent or more of their after-tax household income on heating, cooling, and lighting their homes. Atlantic Canada has the highest rates of Energy Poverty in Canada. While citizens support the transition away from fossil fuels for electricity generation and home heating, they recognize the transition might mean electricity bills…

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Atlantic Loop, Homegrown Renewables Needed For Fossil-Free Atlantic Canada: Study

Jon MacNeill — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 15:05:00 +0000

A new study from our electricity collaborators at Halifax-based Ecology Action Centre (EAC) concludes that a combination of building an Atlantic Loop and developing much more non-polluting, renewable energy in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia is the best way to ensure affordable, reliable and sustainable electricity when the provinces’ coal plants go offline. The study, Assessing Net-zero Electricity…

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Conservation Council Applauds Neqotkuk, Saint John Energy Partnership On Wind Power

Jon MacNeill — Tue, 17 May 2022 19:22:46 +0000

The Burchill Wind Partnership is a perfect example of the type of collaborative and forward-thinking projects we need to bring affordable, reliable and sustainable renewable energy to families all across New Brunswick.

Renewable Energy Is The Future, Not Fossil Fuels

Jon MacNeill — Wed, 11 May 2022 15:39:23 +0000

Response to Premier Higgs' speculation that shale gas and liquified natural gas are solutions to war-induced threats to European gas supply.

Nuclear Commission Must Reject Unprecedented 25-Year Renewal For Lepreau

Jon MacNeill — Tue, 10 May 2022 18:34:00 +0000

Traditional Land of Wabanaki People/Fredericton – The Conservation Council of New Brunswick supports the calls from Indigenous leaders and nuclear safety experts to reject NB Power’s request for an unprecedented 25-year operating renewal at the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station.The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is holding public hearings in Saint John this week.

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Federal Emissions Reduction Plan Makes Progress, But Stronger Commitments To Fairness, Effectiveness And Affordability Required

Jon MacNeill — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 15:55:03 +0000

Traditional Land of Wabanaki People/Fredericton — Canadians are looking for climate solutions that are fair, effective, and affordable. Today’s release of the federal 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP) makes important progress, but is not as fair, effective or affordable as it needs to be. The federal ERP is the first under the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act…

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Conservation Council welcomes federal discussion paper on options to achieve zero-emissions electricity grid by 2035

Jon MacNeill — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 17:20:11 +0000

Traditional Land of Wabanaki People/Fredericton — Today’s release of a federal discussion paper on regulatory options to deliver zero-emissions electricity by 2035 is a critical step towards a clean electricity system, says Louise Comeau, Director of Climate Change and Energy Solutions at the Conservation Council of New Brunswick (CCNB).One solution to climate change is to use non-polluting…

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New IPCC report reinforces dire need for rapid emissions reductions, energy reform, nature protection as NB updates climate action plan

Jon MacNeill — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 11:53:35 +0000

Traditional Land of Wabanaki People/Fredericton — New Brunswick leaders updating the province’s climate action plan must heed the urgent call for rapid emissions reductions and greater nature protection outlined in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) newest report.The report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, released Feb. 28, says the already enormous…

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Comeau on SMRs: Distractions disguised as climate solutions

Corey Robichaud — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 13:29:00 +0000

The Conservation Council’s Director of Climate Change and Energy Solutions, Dr. Louise Comeau, told reporters that investments in unproven small modular nuclear reactor research would be better spent helping New Brunswickers lower their carbon pollution footprint and adapt to climate change in their homes and businesses today.Following the latest round of investments from federal and provincial…

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